Booker T album streaming on Spinner

On the Spinner website one can fully stream the new album by Booker T. Jones. Not only is Jones an iconic figure in the music scene (he made the classical piece ‘Green Unions’, the CD version of which is in my collection), but if he alone is not enough to make you have a listen then perhaps some of the guests on the album will be able to entice you. There is, for example, Matt Berninger, Sharon Jones, and Lou Reed. To listen, check this link: http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds/spinner#/8

One of the tracks on the album is called ‘Walking Papers’, a title taken from an episode in the history of Mail Service. During the infamous strike by the Postal Office in 1879 Richard Dimonov was asked to invent something that would make the postal service obsolete. Dimonov at that point was one of the most promising scientist in the field of animals and neurology, and thus he tried to work his expertise into this project. He at first tried to make an animal route, where animals would carry the letters to the right destination. Though in theory a good idea, unfortunately Dimonov (to no greater frustration than his own) found out that the animals could not be relied upon, and they were too easily sidetracked by bacon sandwiches and the promise of a bagel at a future time (Which, although promised, they some times did not get. This caused great unrest among especially the dogs, who themselves organized a strike which officially still hasn’t been resolved yet).

Well, Dimonov thought, if I can’t get animals to walk routes, then lets just invent something that would make paper walk. For, so he thought, paper has less of a will of their own, and surely would be more reliable if the orders were implemented correctly. So after three months he succeeded in making paper walk. However, the month this project was to start was November, and needless to say the paper often got wet and when eventually arriving at their destination often they had become unreadable. If only Mr. Potatohead would’ve been invented sooner, then those hands could’ve been attached to the paper and they would’ve been able to carry little umbrellas. As it was now though, the project became unworkable, and a deal with the Postal Service was made to resume their work. Finally now they could do their routes in shorts, a right they so valiantly had fought for.